Fun Facts: Lagat won a pair of 1,500m Olympic medals for his native Kenya before changing his national affiliation to the United States. A U.S. resident since 1996, Lagat officially became eligible to compete for the United States one day after the start of the 2007 World Outdoor Championships ... In growing up on his family's farm in Kapsabet, Kenya, Lagat ran a mile and a half to school each morning, and the same distance back ... Lagat left Kenya for the United States when he received a scholarship from Washington State University in Pullman ... He earned BA’s from Washington State in Management Information Systems, and Decision Science (Econometrics) ... Married to Gladys Tom and they have one son (Miika Kimutai Lagat) and one daughter (Gianna)